are wizards gimped?

[odizzido]

Originally Posted by xorbier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"The bad
1)Lowest sustained DPS of the DPS classes under most conditions"

Data to support this!?!??!?!?!?!

I don't have hard data, but as someone who has played a mage, necro, and wiz to 40+ this is what I have noticed.

[BuzWeaver]

This is were Guilds come in. I've not been in a guild where any class was not welcome to group with other members. If you're going about this solo and trying to do pickup groups you may find it discouraging.

Playing a Druid does allow me the luxury of playing Solo, however at some point it will be more advantageous to join a guild.

[eqholmes]

Originally Posted by Thac0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And yet it's an ability most people lack, hence the abundance of mages [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not even close to the reason why there are more mages than wizards. People pick mages right now because there dps is sick there pets are extremely useful on all raid encounters, soloing you can level 8x the speed of a wizard. Wizards cant farm crap compared to mages. Want me to go on? Playing a Wizard isnt difficult at all, sit med at 40% nuke sit med at 40% nuke, hell maybe go all out and do 2 nukes on 1 mob?!!? Once Wizards group up and ae farm they will own, but at this point you can level a 50 mage in a month and then gear a wizard and level him to 50 before we see kunark.

Holmes 50 nerco DA
Gretzky 24 ranger DA

[Thac0]

Originally Posted by eqholmes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People pick mages right now because there dps is sick

define sick.

there pets are extremely useful on all raid encounters

Yeah you sound like you raided alot.

soloing you can level 8x the speed of a wizard.

How did you come to that number? Pity wizards cant kill multiple mobs like you can. Oh wait...

Wizards cant farm crap compared to mages.

Mkay. I guess theres no way for a wizard to make money, if only they had some ability that others needed, if not a heal..a way to ferry people through mystical portals or something to that effect...hmmm..

Want me to go on?

Please do, I need a good laugh from a sperger.

Playing a Wizard isnt difficult at all, sit med at 40% nuke sit med at 40% nuke, hell maybe go all out and do 2 nukes on 1 mob?!!?

No Tishans? No Evac? No bonds of force? No CC root? No wonder you have an abysmal view of the class if that was all you did on your wizard.

Once Wizards group up and ae farm they will own, but at this point you can level a 50 mage in a month and then gear a wizard and level him to 50 before we see kunark.

Read the rest of the thread and get back to us. Wizards provide burst damage on command with no cool-down nukes with decent efficiency.

Don't get upset that the wizard takes more than a /pet attack /cast 1 macro to play. There plenty of incentive to be one as others in the thread pointed out.[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Skaff]

Well I do agree with him on some levels with the wizard. I played one on live for a LONG time and pretty much a majority of the playtime follows the patterns he described.

I ultimately think that EQ is very simple and most classes have very few areas to actually demonstrate skill. The game follows very very hard rules and knowing how the mechanics of the game works is where you actually see the "skill" take place.

[Bradoshado]

This is an MMO...playing a class isn't hard...ever.

None of the classes in this game are hard to play.
You're not skilled even if you're "good" at your class cause it's super easy.

Move along.

[gruumsh]

I play an SK (ogre) now that's hard >.<

[eqholmes]

Clearly I hit a nerve, must be a wizard for sure. I dont play a mage, but as of now I would have a mage in my group over a wizard anyday. Also I'm sure Ive raided a good bit more than you, and pets are very useful on raids. But anyways sorry I hit so close to home.

[guineapig]

I've read all the back and forth but honestly I'm seeing rogues doing the most DPS on raid targets on this server. Were talking about DPS over 5 minutes, not 20 seconds in those cases.